Dumb little update to the Amazon book control...now it knows where you live!

I've been using Scott W.s little Amazon book control on this site for a while now - and it's pretty damn good, haven't made any cash from it as yet...but...well, it always bugged me that it was .com only as written - so if you were in the UK, by default it…

Puzzled by memory usage...

I have this command line app, when running in a 'normal' command window, it uses a fair whack of memory (around 60mb), but the second I minimize to taskbar, the memory usage drops to around 10mb....anyone any ideas why??? UPDATE: Apparently this has to do with…

The coolest thing of all - Longhorn build 4051 on MSDN in November!

My PDC envy is slightly abated...now I'll just have to get a new test machine (VMWare is cool and all, but you can't beat dedicated). Anyway, read all about it here at Bink. I really can't wait to play with some of the new Avalon stuff...This appears to be for…

Scott Guthrie blogs about some of the new Whidbey features...

Some very interesting stuff here. UPDATE: Just reading that article, things I'm looking forward to most are the URLMapping (Rewrite.NET is cool and all but it will be nice to have the new 'native' model) and 'No Compile' - I have been waiting for this for SO…

Including XML comments in external files for C#

This strikes me as pretty useful...found here at Eric Gunnerson's blog.... Actually, looks like a fairly interesting discussion on the relative merits of this approach is happening there right now...

Well that's the PDC DVD ordered...

Just called up MSDN UK and asked for the PDC DVD, should be here around mid-November apparently. So if you're in the UK and an MSDN member (if you're not, get your company to join - only cost £520 if you join the 'Empower' ISV doohikey), call up now - you get…

XmlTextReader bizarre and fustrating bug...well not really a bug...

Had this odd issue working on some code which uses XmlTextReader to pass through an XML string...basically, when I ran the code noemally, it worked every time, but when I ran in debug mode it would read the first node and skip all others. Well, this drove me…

Turning HTML Documents into images...the code

Well, after a bit of playing I've got something working now, I'm no Win32 coder but this seems to work: using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Forms; using…

iPod Love

Well, got my iPod exchanged...working perfectly now. Firewire just rules (as does USB 2.0 which I use at work) - got roughly 3000 songs transferred over in under an hour...this is really just the prettiest thing I've ever owned, I just can't fault the design…

Just noticed on Larkware - Exchange intelligent Message filter just released to everyone!

Umm..title says it all, Larkware linkis here, download link here